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Films
9 Films
Keywords
“Death”
x
Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
4
Region
Australia
2
Central Asia and Far East
1
Latin America
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
2
Southern Africa
1
West Africa
1
Country
Australia
2
Botswana
1
Costa Rica
1
Indonesia
2
Japan
1
Nepal
1
Nigeria
1
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Death
9
x
Elderly people
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Inter-religious relations
1
Personal Narrative
1
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
4
Ritual
4
Directors
Arias Ortiz, Carolina
1
Asch, Patsy
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Connor, Linda
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Johnson, Dul
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
not set
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
4
Country of production
Australia
3
Costa Rica
1
Japan
1
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1973
1
1980
1
1991
1
2004
1
2009
1
2012
1
2014
2
2020
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Burying Hallelujah
2014
51
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Hallelujah, a ‘bush mechanic’ turned archbishop, gets the funeral he deserves, one of the very biggest in Botswana’s railway town, Palapye. Many churches come together, their robes, splendid, their
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Death
Ngarap: fighting over a corpse
1973
17
‘
Directed by
Anthony Forge
.
In 1993, Anthony Forge filmed the cremation of an older woman from an affluent ‘commoner’ family. As her body was moved from her family compound to the cremation tower, men of the ward seized the
South-East Asia
Death
Ritual
Art / Artists / Artisans
Archival material / Museum displays
Part of Us
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Maria Meriwether
.
For the Ngarrindjeri people, the living and the dead are connected through shared land and heritage. The preservation of this connection is at the heart of the community’s effort to repatriate the
Australia
Death
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Rebel Objects
2020
70
‘
Directed by
Carolina Arias Ortiz
.
Anthropologist and filmmaker Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to Costa Rica to visit her estranged father. When he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, death suddenly draws close. During this time she
Latin America
Archaeology
Death
Personal Narrative
Releasing the Spirits: a village cremation in Bali
1991
44
‘
Directed by
Patsy Asch
Linda Connor
Timothy Asch
.
In 1978, as part of the preparations for the island-wide ceremony eka dasa rudra, religious officials urged all Balinese to cleanse the island by cremating their dead. Many were forced to pool
South-East Asia
Death
Ritual
A Small Light
2004
32
‘
Directed by
Julia Yezbick
.
Through following the daily life of a home for the elderly in Kathmandhu, Nepal, run by Catholic nuns but situated beside the cremation ghats of Pashupathinath Hindu temple, this film explores
South Asia
Death
Inter-religious relations
Religion / Belief / Faith
Elderly people
There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle
2012
78
‘
Directed by
Sylvie Bringas
Dul Johnson
.
Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to Tarok land to observe the local death rituals and the record of the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honoring departed. This film provides a rare and
West Africa
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
Waiting for Harry
1980
57
‘
Directed by
Kim McKenzie
.
Although the events around which this film was planned were the final mortuary rites for Les Angabarraparra, the subject of the film became interaction. Interaction between the anthropologist Les
Australia
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
Reflexivity
We Don’t Need A Grave
2014
27
‘
.
‘We Don’t Need a Grave’ attempts to show how the people who choose Shizenso rather than the typical family grave try to accept one’s death. Shizenso is a natural mortuary practice that has no
Central Asia and Far East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Death
Ritual